[30] A noble and free Arab.

[31] This is a very horrid oath, full of nonsense, and vows of friendship and secrecy.

[32] El'asser is four o'clock.

[33] The Hakim, or wise man knows.

[34] He is indeed wise.

[35] God is great.

[36] This refusal among the Arabs is a declaration of the most deadly enmity.

[37] Vid. Marmol, tom. I p. 274.

[38] Vid. Consul Maillet's letter to the French ambassador published by Le Grande in his History of Abyssinia.

[39] Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. Pope.